UniBoard is Now Free

In the past I've shown off this great program for working with tablets or with a Wiimote whiteboard called Uniboard. The problem was that Uniboard seemed to be dead. There had been no updates or tweets for months (maybe a year). I figured it was a piece of great software that would just fade into non-existence.

Well, yesterday I went looking for it again. I had observed a colleague of mine teaching yesterday and realized that even though it wasn't being updated that he could definitely use it. Well, apparently last week Uniboard went Open Source. It is now called Sankore and is totally free. Warning, the page is all in French. Here's a direct link to the download page.

The free version used to have a nag-screen on every page, it's gone now. The screen-capture tool had a watermark in the recording which is also now gone. I can whole heartedly recommend this program. Whether you need a tool to help present lessons in class or you want to record lessons for reverse lecture you should check out Sankore.

Teacher TechBites Episode 012 - Uniboard

Uniboard is basically a whiteboard. That's really all there is to it. I discovered it on my quest to get the coolest parts of an Interactive Whiteboard without the corresponding price tag. At one point I used the Wiimote option, but now I go with the wireless tablet device.

Stuff to Know

• Will respond to pressure sensitive writing
• Has a built in web browser, but you can only write on static pictures of the pages
• Will allow you to record whatever ends up on the whiteboard and audio recorded from a microphone
• Can import power point and pdf files, which you can annotate
• Includes a number of built in Apps and you can build your own apps to use as well
• You can download Flash apps and embed them in your presentations
• Free version has a pop-up on every page. It appears every time you change pages, so if you go back to a previous page it returns.

Cross posted from teachertechbites.com